Lovelyish

That’s just wrong.

No me gusta.

That’s so awesome!

wtf…

dumb bitch

It looks more like a fetish shoot than a domestic violence shoot to me. But maybe that’s just me. I don’t actually know the intentions of the photographer, of course, but he doesn’t label it with “abuse” on his site. He just labels it with things like “irons” and “bruises.” So it could go either way, really.

It’s the smiling. Non-consensual abuse =/= smiling. (Sado)Masochism = smiling.

Also, if you look at it as a series of images, she “gets him back.” So it’s not all about female degradation even if you hold to the “abuse” side of things. (Which might not make it better, but it does certainly change it.)

If it were a more serious shoot, then she would have been idolized for what she did. This just looks too beautiful and too fun to be about domestic abuse.

@TheWomanInTheKitchen@xanga - This.

I would be fine if this was for a Public Service Announcement, but a glamour shot?  Not cool.

I’m excited to see more. Just because it’s not a PSA doesn’t mean they’re not raising awareness.

That is fucking disgusting.  There are women who DIE from domestic violence and this shit is so degrading and totally brings us backward about 80 years for that cause.  It doesn’t matter what kind of shoot it is, that is just one topic you don’t use for joke or fun.  TACTLESS.

Eww eww eww. If it had just been her, bruised, doing glamour shots to show that abused women are still beautiful women, I’d be fine with it. But the smiling and the iron is just too suggestive. I’m sure it wasn’t the photographer’s intent, but it comes off as glorifying abuse rather than vilifying it.

If this is not for some sort of larger, greater purpose? It’s disgusting.

Can I say I love her dress? 

Honestly I can’t say much about the shoot though it does bring up memories of my mother and the abuse she suffered because of my dad. Though I don’t know the intention behind it. 

WTF is up with that 2nd picture…

@TheWomanInTheKitchen@xanga - It’s not a fetish shot. It’s rare to see facial bruises even in BDSM. Non consensual abuse can create a shocked, fearful laugh/smile.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - I’ve seen some pretty extreme BDSM. *shrug* And even if it’s not common in actuality, there’s still a “market” for faked bruises in photography.

I don’t think it’s a fetish shoot, really. It just comes off more as one to me than as a “glamorization of domestic abuse.” I’m saying this with the awareness that I have a quite skewed perspective because of my background.

True about the shocked smile. I dunno… it still just doesn’t come off that way for me? Part of it is the posing in the other shots. Laying suggestively on an ironing board doesn’t suggest domestic abuse to me whatsoever.

Omg… I think my heart just broke a little. This ad seems to be supporting the normalization and acceptance of domestic violence; something that should NOT be tolerated by any man or woman.

This reminds me of the Vagina Monologues… Only sexified…

i wonder why this is considered horrible, but i bet that half the chicks here would love to see a woman walk all over a man.  double standard, much?

if this really were a PSA about domestic abuse then it isn’t necessarily in poor taste. Many women who are abused by their partners try to hide the fact that they are being abused. Being abused doesn’t mean you’re transparent about it. A lot of people over-compensate for the fact that they are abused by being especially eager to please. Perhaps that was the idea?

if it’s supposed to portray domestic abuse why does she look happy?

fucked. up.

http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Heather-Morris-of-Glee-appears-in-controversial-photo-shoot/8340482

obviously it wasn’t their intention and i don’t necessarily see the message that abusing women is OK from these pictures.

@kiwi_cheese@xanga - The photo shoot plays on sexist themes, which includes domestic abuse.

This is pretty disgusting, if you ask me.  I don’t care for sexist humor at all.

I don’t see this as pro-domestic-abuse. I see it as a satirical portrayal of how some battered women seem to people around them: she gets a bruise every now and again, but she’s the “perfect wife” with the “greatest family” and “adoring husband.” That’s who she is to people who don’t know how to read the signs, and I think that’s what this is supposed to say. She acts happy, because she doesn’t know what else to do. Granted, I could be completely wrong, but I don’t see this as putting forth the message that it’s okay or good to hurt your spouse or partner. It satirizes. That’s the only thing I can think of that makes any kind of logical sense.

You’re all blowing this out of proportion. 

Im sure the women who get beat feel great now…

so what’s controversial about it?

She is not a model…

No!

@practicetolerance@xanga - lol what? ok…still don’t see how these pictures mean anything at all.  

I don’t really think it looks like a domestic violence ad…but I do agree it looks like an S&M shoot.  If it IS a domestic violence ad I think its a satirical comment on what women must go through….they must act like nothing has happened..smile and say they fell down…and in extreme cases even get nutrition from extreme sources.  I like it.

maybe it’s a poke on the stereotype of a woman doing household chores. i mean, she’s smiling, so obviously she’s not suffering from battered syndrome… she’a klutz, and terrible at “doing womanly things” — debunking that crap that women belong in the home wearing susie homemaker dresses and ironing all day. or whoever the photographer was trying to make do with the dress he got and that’s the inspiration he got from it…. a freakin susie homemaker dress. idk. that’s why (decent) artwork is ambiguous, left open to interpretation. why do these bolded questions have to come off so controversial? it’s just unnecessary.

what… the fuck

I don’t think this has anything to do with domestic abuse, and I speak from the viewpoint of someone who has been in an abusive relationship.

I on’t like her at all anyway, so this makes it worse lol.

“Controversial” woop dee doo. Nothing is controversial anymore

These images eroticized violence

What are they thinking taking those kind of pictures???? It is not only wrong, it is disgusting !!!!!

Tyler Shields does some pretty controversial work – it’s all in his style & I don’t think the intentions were to glamourize domestic violence. 

I guess I see it as ironic.  The woman takes all the shit and abuse from the husband, still does all the chores, and has a smile on her face the entire time.  I don’t get why people are upset.  You think that cheesy smile is a real smile?  It’s meant to make a statement, it’s meant to BE IRONIC.  People take things way too seriously all the time nowadays…  Lighten up a little bit…